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State of Maine

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with the word "Seal" written inside and "William D. Williamson" underneath]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for our County of Lincoln, on the fourth Tuesday of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, John Noyes Fairbanks, late resident of Hope, in our said County of Lincoln, laborer, was convicted of the crime of Larceny, on two several indictments; and thereupon, by our said Court, sentenced upon one Indictment, to be punished by solitary imprisonment for term of six days; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of six months; and on the other Indictment to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of eight days, commencing after the execution of said former sentence, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of eight months; both to be executed in the common gaol in our said county of Lincoln; a part of which latter sentence remains unexecuted: And he the said John Noyes Fairbanks, has supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said John Noyes Fairbanks, all that part of the punishment aforesaid that remains unexecuted; and grant to him the said John Noyes Fairbanks, a full and free Pardon of the crimes aforesaid: Of which, all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates and Officers of every denomination are to take notice:

Witness William D. Williamson, President of our Senate, exercising the office of Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, this sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one; and in the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the President of the Senate, exercising the Office of Governor,

Ashur Ware, Secretary of State.